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cmoullec
17 July 2020

Best practices for an effective remote team in the world of cloud delivery

Article Cloud and server

Just like countless other business functions, cloud delivery has now shifted entirely to remote working for now and perhaps longer term. Canonical has been a remote-first company for some time, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to share some of the best practices we’ve learned along the way. Communication...

cmoullec
17 July 2020

sidfaber
17 July 2020

ROS Security Benchmark open for public comment

Article Robotics

We’re pleased to announce that the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has publicly released the ROS Security Benchmark for community discussion. When published, this benchmark will document community best-practice configuration settings to properly secure ROS Melodic running on Ubuntu Bionic. Hopefully this is just the...

sidfaber
17 July 2020

Canonical
15 July 2020

Canonical launches enhanced GSI partner programme, bringing scalability and automation to modernise enterprise IT deployments

Article Ubuntu

15 July 2020: Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announces the launch of its enhanced Global System Integrator (GSI) Programme. Alongside new partnership benefits, it includes resell and integration opportunities for the entirety of Canonical’s secure, open source portfolio for the data centre, multi-cloud, edge...

Canonical
15 July 2020

anastasiavalti
13 July 2020

Kubernetes from cloud to edge: A US virtual event

Article Kubernetes

Register for the event Who is this event for? After the huge success of its latest virtual event on Kubernetes for the EMEA region, Canonical brings its expertise to the US with another educational discussion. On July 31st, Canonical’s panel of experts come together to share their insights from years of working with...

anastasiavalti
13 July 2020

sidfaber
13 July 2020

Robotics Recap: Learning, Programming & Snapping ROS 2

Article Robotics

Robotics@Canonical puts a strong focus on the migration from ROS to ROS 2. ROS 2 benefits from many improvements, especially robot security. Our goal is to make it easy for you to transition to ROS 2, whether you’re completely new to ROS or a seasoned engineer retooling for a new environment. Your new platform should

sidfaber
13 July 2020

Joshua Powers
9 July 2020

Ubuntu Support of AWS Graviton2 Instances

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog Ubuntu is the industry-leading operating system for use in the cloud. Every day millions of Ubuntu instances are launched in private and public clouds around the world. Canonical takes pride in offering support for the latest cloud features and functionality. As of...

Joshua Powers
9 July 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
9 July 2020

How to manage snap updates

Article Cloud and server

Updates are an integral part of the software lifecycle. Quite often, they bring improvements, vital security patches – and sometimes, unfortunately, bugs, too. In mission-critical environments, it is important to assert a high degree of oversight and precision over updates. Snaps come with a built-in automatic update...

Igor Ljubuncic
9 July 2020

Alex Chalkias
9 July 2020

MicroK8s HA tech preview is now available

Article Cloud and server

High availability (HA) for MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes, is now available as a tech preview for Linux, Windows and macOS. The Kubernetes control plane can now be distributed across multiple nodes, bringing resiliency to the cluster while maintaining a low footprint using Dqlite, the distributed SQL engine as the...

Alex Chalkias
9 July 2020

Canonical
8 July 2020

Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter

Article Canonical announcements

By Chris Sells (Google) & Ken VanDine (Canonical) Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that run at native speeds no matter what platform you target. To validate this capability, we started by focusing on the mobile platforms, Android and iOS, where we’ve...

Canonical
8 July 2020

Anthony Dillon
8 July 2020

Design and Web team summary – 8th July 2020

Article Design

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s promotional sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more. USNs on ubuntu.com Ubuntu security notices can now be found...

Anthony Dillon
8 July 2020

Adi Singh
8 July 2020

The State of Robotics – June 2020

Article Robotics

ROS, Ripple and reflections – In this month’s edition of The State of Robotics, we’ll tell you about the recently discovered Ripple vulnerability, the latest and greatest in robots reflecting nature, and a dash of news from the ROS universe. Foxy Fitzroy released ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy was released on June 5 for Ubuntu 20.04.

Adi Singh
8 July 2020

Sohini Bianka Roy
6 July 2020

Canonical Developer Advocate Named Microsoft MVP

Article Desktop

We would like to congratulate Hayden Barnes, a Developer Advocate at Canonical for Ubuntu on WSL, who was awarded MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft for 2020-2021 for his contributions to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) community. The Microsoft MVP Award is awarded annually by Microsoft to technology...

Sohini Bianka Roy
6 July 2020

Jeremie Deray
3 July 2020

Feeling at home in a LXD container

Article Robotics

In this post, we will see how we can containerize our home in LXD simply managing our personal configuration files – a.k.a. dotfiles. Yeah dotfiles, named after their common ~/.my_config form, you know, all of those small configuration files lying across our $HOME. In other words, how one can change the house while keeping the

Jeremie Deray
3 July 2020

Alan Griffiths
3 July 2020

A snap confined shell based on Mir: Mircade

Article Internet of Things

Mircade: An example snap confined user shell There are various scenarios and reasons for packaging a Snap confined shell and a selection of applications together in a confined environment. You might have applications that work well together for a particular task; or, you may want to offer a number of alternative...

Alan Griffiths
3 July 2020